Abstract:The Sierra Leone Trial to Introduce a Vaccine Against Ebola (STRIVE), a clinical trial of the investigational recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus–based Ebola virus vaccine (rVSV∆ZEBOV-GP; Merck), provided an opportunity to assess health conditions in a cohort of healthy Sierra Leonean adults before vaccination. Of the 8793 healthcare and frontline Ebola response workers screened for study enrollment, 7 (0.1%) self-reported human immunodeficiency virus infection or another significant immunodeficiency disord… Show more
“…Therefore, study staff used case report forms to document participant descriptions of medical events more thoroughly than is done in a typical developed-country clinical trial setting. This practice had the added benefit of providing a snapshot of medical conditions in this population [11], for which few data had previously been available.…”
Section: Documentation Of Case Historiesmentioning
“…Therefore, study staff used case report forms to document participant descriptions of medical events more thoroughly than is done in a typical developed-country clinical trial setting. This practice had the added benefit of providing a snapshot of medical conditions in this population [11], for which few data had previously been available.…”
Section: Documentation Of Case Historiesmentioning
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